Contents: Issue 4: July 2020 |
Featured Artist |
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About Issue 4 |
Clare MacQueen | Intro |
◊ | Editor’s Choice Award |
◊ | Statistics |
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Quink Writing Challenge |
Clare MacQueen | About the Contest |
Winner: | |
Linda Saldaña | Mental Distancing in the Time of Quink [flash fiction] |
Finalists: | |
Roberta Beary | My Lover Needs Me to Bubble With Her [micro-fiction] |
Dennis Marden Clark | Quink Again [poem] |
Lee Nash | Polysemic crush [haibun story] |
Semi-finalists: | |
Christopher Candice | The Q Menagerie [flash fiction] |
Pamelyn Casto | In the Quink of an Eye [flash fiction] |
Kelly Jensen | Holding Quinks [prose poem] |
Jenine Oosthuizen | Quick or Ink? [flash fiction] |
Daryl Scroggins | The Lexiconic Labyrinth of Millicent Greaves [flash fiction] |
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CNF, Essays, Etc. |
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Guy Biederman | In So Many Words [CNF/craft essay] |
Jack Cooper | Naming the Phenomenon [with artwork by MaRco Elliot] |
Yahia Lababidi | [Selected Aphorisms] [R] |
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Ekphrastic Works |
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Robert L. Dean, Jr. | Hands [R] [poem, lineated; plus photograph by Gay Pasley] |
◊ | Newsboy [poem, lineated] |
Paul David Mena | [Fresh Graffiti] [R] [micro-poem and photograph] |
LeeAnn Pickrell | Ode to Coffee [poem, lineated] |
Charles D. Tarlton | Edmonia Lewis: The Death of Cleopatra [R] [tanka prose] |
Rina Terry | Playing My Blue Guitar [poem, lineated] |
Note: If you’re interested in submitting ekphrastic works to us, wonderful! We hope you’ll take a few minutes to read our tips in KYSO Flash, Ephective Ekphrastics: A Guide for Verbalizing Art, which include additional examples of what we’re looking to publish here in MacQueen’s Quinterly as well. | |
Note: An “[R]” after titles indicates reprinted works. | |
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Featured Artist |
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Tiffany Shaw-Diaz | Six Works: Poems & Photographs: |
◊ | Soft Beauty [R] [photograph, allium seed heads] |
◊ | “floating” [cherita] |
◊ | Inner World [R] [photograph, succulents] |
◊ | “studies have shown” [cherita] |
◊ | Redemption [R] [photograph] |
◊ | “silence blooms” [cherita] |
Tiffany Shaw-Diaz | Two Watercolors: |
◊ | Berry nebula [R] |
◊ | Carving the earth [R] |
Note: An “[R]” after titles indicates reprinted works. | |
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Fiction: Flash and Micro* |
Roberta Beary | Watching Needles Grow [micro] |
Roberta Beary | See also Quink Writing Challenge above. |
Guy Biederman | Maraschino [flash] |
Heather Bourbeau | After November 8 [micro] |
◊ | Egress [micro] |
◊ | Hide and Seek [micro] |
Christopher Candice | See Quink Writing Challenge above. |
Pamelyn Casto | See Quink Writing Challenge above. |
Kathryn Kulpa | Slip [flash] |
◊ | War Bride [micro] |
K. Alan Leitch | Props [flash] |
Nancy Ludmerer | After the Play [micro] |
◊ | Quiet Enjoyment [micro] |
◊ | You Will Meet a Handsome Stranger [micro] |
Jenine Oosthuizen | See Quink Writing Challenge above. |
Lynn Pattison | Evening in the Diner [flash] |
Barry Peters | Fidelity [flash] |
Daryl Scroggins | Writer Boy [micro] |
Daryl Scroggins | See also Quink Writing Challenge above. |
*Note: At MacQ, Flash Fiction = 501-1,000 words, and Micro-Fiction, no more than 500 words. These word-counts do include titles! | |
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Fiction, Hybrids: Haibun Stories |
Jonathan Humphrey | Song of Sweat (A Substation in Whitley County, Kentucky) |
◊ | The Same River |
Lee Nash | See Quink Writing Challenge above. |
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Haibun [prose poem + haiku] |
Margaret Dornaus | Yesterday/Today |
Lucia Fontana | Cradle of the CoViD [R] |
Jonathan Humphrey | See Fiction, Hybrids: Haibun Stories above. |
Peter Jastermsky | The Thrifter |
◊ | Thought Trains |
Bob Lucky | If every day’s a new day, |
Mark Meyer | five-and-dime theology [R] |
Lee Nash | See Quink Writing Challenge above. |
Andrew Riutta | Life Out of Balance [R] |
◊ | Prayer |
◊ | The Upper Peninsula of Michigan [R] |
Note: An “[R]” after titles indicates reprinted works. | |
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Haiga and Taiga [visual art + poetry] |
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George Digalakis & Gary S. Rosin |
Caught while escaping [haiga] |
Lucas Dumrauf & Gary S. Rosin |
Empty chair, bare tree [haiga] |
Clare MacQueen | Nine Years [taiga] |
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Poems, Lineated |
Cynthia Anderson | Three Micro-Poems: |
◊ | “tethered to earth” |
◊ | “the veins” [haiku] |
◊ | “wrinkles in time” [cherita] |
Jack Cooper | Two Poems [plus photograph by Kazuko Cooper]: |
◊ | “Mind to Molecule” [R] |
◊ | Sunbow [photo of sun halo] |
◊ | “Feast of Impulse” [R] |
Laine Cunningham | Selfie |
Dennis Marden Clark | See Quink Writing Challenge above. |
Kika Dorsey | during this lockdown |
Shirley Hakim | No Excuse |
Yahia Lababidi | For George Floyd [R] |
◊ | Your Love [R] [micro-poem] |
Bob Lucky | Shit (an adjective; a noun; a verb), a Sonnet |
Barry Peters | The Michael Caine Dream |
LeeAnn Pickrell | Restricted |
Gary S. Rosin | Fields of Fire [R] |
Douglas P. Sjoquist | Graveyard [micro-poem] |
Charles D. Tarlton | Weltanschauung |
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Prose Poems |
Guy Biederman | Rockin’ the Chi |
Laine Cunningham | Conquistadores |
Robert L. Dean, Jr. | The Bus to Elysium |
Linda Nemec Foster | Planting Geraniums on Geranium Street |
◊ | Tower of Babel |
Mary Grimm | Inside/Outside |
Kelly Jensen | See Quink Writing Challenge above. |
Lynn Pattison | Why, |
Daryl Scroggins | Nesting Patterns |
Charles D. Tarlton | Marsh |
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Tanka Prose |
Margaret Dornaus | Shitstorm |
Claire Everett | A Song for Tara |
◊ | #SkylarkLivesMatter |
Charles D. Tarlton | See Ekphrastic Works above. |
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Visual Arts |
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Kazuko Cooper | See entry for Jack Cooper under Poems, Lineated above. |
George Digalakis & Gary S. Rosin |
See Haiga and Taiga above. |
Lucas Dumrauf & Gary S. Rosin |
See Haiga and Taiga above. |
MaRco Elliott | In the Garden City of Earthly Delights [painting] |
Edmonia Lewis | See entry for Charles D. Tarlton under Ekphrastic Works above. |
Gay Pasley | See entry for Robert L. Dean, Jr. under Ekphrastic Works above. |
Gary S. Rosin and George Digalakis |
See Haiga and Taiga above. |
Gary S. Rosin and Lucas Dumrauf |
See Haiga and Taiga above. |
Tiffany Shaw-Diaz | See Featured Artist above. |
Cindy L. Sheppard | [Geothermal] [photographs] |
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